I prefer baths. Mark Behnke only takes showers. Most of us are a combination of a both.Whether you prefer luxuriating in a hot soak or 10 minutes in the shower, there are products for both… that pamper body and spirit. (Note for you bath peeps: all of our soap opera faves also work for YOU!) Part One of of two part series , especially for those who love to get clean naturally!!
One of the highlights of the Fragrance Foundation Awards was when Elizabeth Taylor was inducted into the Fragrance Hall of Fame and the Fragrance Celebrity of the Year was re-named to The Elizabeth Taylor Fragrance Celebrity of the Year. Aids is a disease of such staggering numbers and tragic devastation; for the baby boom generation and those who came after 1981, it is has changed our entire way of existing. We have watched helplessly as many friends, family members, art, fashion and other cultural wasted away before us.
I reviewed Profumi del Forte Versilia Platinum and found that was more Alps than beach. Versilia Aurum turns that formula around and is more beach than Alps. Which as someone who spent too many early mornings on the beach suits me fine.
There is nothing in the world that smells as beautiful as a baby, (after changing) although I am childless, I try to sneak a sniff of every family and friend’s infant or toddler by kissing their head, just for the odor. It is the one aroma that I wish a perfumer can capture, but I don’t believe they can, nor ever will.
That is why I don’t understand the point of drenching your toddler, or infant with Mandarin-Orange, bergamot and Vanilla Milk Moss
I have never made the trip to Versailles to visit the L’Osmotheque but it has certainly been on my perfumista bucket list and while it still is; I got the next best thing at Esxence 2011 in Milan the traveling version of L’Osmotheque. As part of their mission to let this fragrant history be experienced by the greatest number of people they have made a traveling version and within two hinged wooden cases the fragrant world’s masterpieces beckoned to me.
The Cinnamon peeler’s Wife was written by Michael Ondaatje (the author of The English Patient) and is perhaps one of the most beautiful odes to love using our fifth sense as its lingua franca.
